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The top of the wall was in utter pandemonium when Evie arrived. Strand monsters were pulling themselves over the eastern face. The Tainted had banded together, and were having some success driving them back, but they had already paid in blood. A stream of red ran by her feet, and following it with her eyes she found a familiar face. It was the woman named Trina, locked in battle with a tremendous blob of a creature that had oozed over the wall. The thing had surrounded her on three sides, extending small tentacles from its mass, probing before the final strike.
Evie gripped her knife and dropped to a crouch, but hesitated; the small blade was as likely to be lost in the monster’s strands as to do any damage. Besides, this was the woman who had taken Hunter away, put that thing inside
